Google Just Made It Way Easier to Scan Your Old Photos

Google Photos is the best photo-management tool you can put on your phone, but it won't do you any good if your favorite photos are all in a shoebox. With a new app built to scan your prints, eliminate any glare you'd get from taking a picture of them, and keep them all straightened out in digital form, Google's latest mobile app is good news for anyone with a bunch of packed Fotomat envelopes. The new PhotoScan is a standalone app for both Android and iOS, and scanning a picture is a clever combination of manual shooting and computational photography. Once you take an initial photo of… a photo, the app recognizes the four corners of the frame and displays circular overlays on each corner of the scanned image. You then point your phone camera at each circle, create a robust scan of the image, and PhotoScan gets to work from there.